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 New - "Sustainably" Surveilling and Tokenizing Nature: The Case of O.N.E. Amazon

The architect of BlackRock's ETFs has teamed up with a group of companies tied to US intelligence and US government debt trading to tokenize the Amazon rainforest and borgify it with a large-scale sensor network in order to create a new form of "digital gold."

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/08/investigative-reports/sustainably-surveilling-and-tokenizing-nature-the-case-of-o-n-e-amazon/ 
 Insert here white dude with big hair and big stache saying WTF... 
 Good grief. Even James Cameron would reject this script  
 Whitney Webb is an absolute baller

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 Crazy stuff, but what would these tokens actually represent? Presumably not the actual ownership of this land?

Sounds like a shitcoin to me..  😁 
 @MeA_BzZz 
 Thanks for sharing Helen 
 Financialization of everything 🙁  
 Financialization of everything 🙁